So lower rank players are punished from stacking missions at lower pay because higher ranked players could make more money doing it?
[PSA] You can't stack skimmer missions anymore
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So lower rank players are punished from stacking missions at lower pay because higher ranked players could make more money doing it?
You're missing the fundamental difference between the mission types, that's why Conch told you apples to oranges and he's right.
Data missions don't have multiple targets to satisfy goal completion, one delivery to one station. On the other hand if I pick up skimmer kill missions (and by the way, the OP is wrong, they DO still stack (some of them anyway)), then devs have the option of allowing 1 kill to affect all missions, or to just count for one. So the types that are common to this concept are: Base scans (no longer stack, but these are a grey area, somewhere between deliveries and 'massacre' type multi target missions), Massacre missions (no longer stack), Kill pirates of X faction missions, and Wetwork and spec ops missions that pay more than 5m (are usually for multiple targets). Data deliveries and cargo deliveries are in a different category of one goal, one destination.
@Sentience, you are right, in reality a confirmed kill is a confirmed kill, if you are asked by two factions to make kills against another faction, it is 100% logical, that each confirmed kill should satisfy each mission giver. THe exception to this is when you have two missions to kill pirates of factoin X and they are both from the same mission giver. Under this case, there is no logic why the person would pay double, triple or more for each kill.
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Never said that, by "represented by whatever mission broker" I meant you couldn't care less who the broker is since the fact that there are two different factions is what matters.
Well in that case you do have a point, I admit. Raise a bug report, see if that takes you anywere. But even if this programming logic turns out to be a necessary evil to prevent the other scenario (same faction asking for the same thing over and over), I'd still take this situation over the old one. Imagine each faction wants physical proof of the kill (bring me their bloody... ahem... processors), or something, I dunno.
An exploit got fixed.
Turns out it was never intended for you to take several missions all for the same thing and get the rewards for completing just one.
I really hate exploiters who cannot play the game in a normal manner. It's essentially cheating - And you want to carry on doing this...
I think that is what he is complaining about...... that he can't make ridiculous amounts of money by defrauding the mission givers anymore.
Like bran said, it was never meant to stack. Its not balansed toward kills being stacked.
But atm you can still make buckets full of credits on it. It just take more time.
then he needs to min/max it.. for optimal profit.
Your opinion is invalid because your argument is invalid.
Delivery missions to the same destination are still separate missions with separate data. They also often have different delivery targets.
Wait, so you're complaining about an exploit because you didn't know how to abuse it to the full extent?
Oh man, this is golden.
I took both missions from different mission brokers. Two different minor factions.
I'm doing exactly what the patch said is still allowed, and yet it's not working.
But according to you lot, I'm exploiting, defrauding, and not playing the game normally? Funny.
All I did was point out an inconsistency in the mission system and I get crucified for it. What a lovely forum. Last time I share any info about possible bugs.
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No, you got crucified because you threw a tantrum.
If you're reporting a bug, what you should do is...raise a post in the bug reporting section in the given format.
Nah, that wasn't a tantrum, pretty far from it. If you want to jump on someone for raising an issue then go right ahead.
I'm done here. Mods, please lock.
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That's a different type of stacking entirely.
If you take 20 data delivery missions, you have to hand in 20 data delivery missions
If you took 20 massacre/skimmer missions, previously you only had to fulfil the requirement for ONE mission to complete them ALL
Now, if you take 20 massacre/skimmer missions, you have to complete 20 massacre/skimmer missions.
It's the exact opposite of a double standard. It's standardising the way missions work. It's bringing the massacre/skimmer (and settlement scan) missions in line with all the other missions in the game so that you have to complete each mission individually rather than taking a bunch and rendering the requirements for the others redundant.
That's not how it works either. You're not given a discrete target, it's a massacre. If it were 1 faction has 10 missions to kill the same pirate, then yes, once should be enough for all. But the question then would by why would 1 faction give out multiple contracts to kill the same guy?
But no, how it works is 1 faction gives out multiple contracts for kills of a people group. In this case it makes sense for taking multiple contracts to add up. The mission giver is then saying "So you've taken 3 contracts at 30 kills each, so you're going to kill 90 ships for us? Brilliant, that'll show them! Remember, I'm paying you for every 30 kills you make."
You're missing the difference between two different types of mission. One is specific, the other is general.
I took my missions from different minor factions and they didn't stack.
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